Re: Trouble with getting dri to work using the radeon driver.

On 10/5/06, Martin Arver <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out why i can not get direct rendering working
> using the radeon driver.
> I am now running ubuntu edgy and my graphics card is a X700 mobility
> radeon card.
>
> I'll post some info that i have tracked down.
> If i set LIBGL_DEBUG to verbose and run glxgears, I get the following output:
>
> ----snip---
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.2.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so failed
> (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory)
> libGL error: unable to find driver: r300_dri.so
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.2.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so failed
> (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri//r300_dri.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory)
> libGL error: unable to find driver: r300_dri.so
> 5555 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1110.999 FPS
> ---snip---
>
> If I run export | grep LIBGL, i notice that the LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH is
> set to the wrong directory. It should be /usr/lib/dri/, but it is set
> to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/.
>
> If I change that to /usr/lib/dri, or create a symlink to point to the
> right place, I get another error:
>
> name of display: :0.0
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.2.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so failed
> (/usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_get_dispatch)
> libGL error: unable to find driver: r300_dri.so
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.2.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so failed
> (/usr/lib/dri//r300_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_get_dispatch)
> libGL error: unable to find driver: r300_dri.so
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> ...
>
> Does anyone on this list know how to solve this? I think the problem
> is some old remains of an fglrx driver, but I have uninstalled all
> fglrx related stuff and reinstalled all mesa and open source ati
> driver packages.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>

You likely have a version mismatch here. You could reinstall mesa-dri
(don't know exact name for ubuntu) package  and you should get correct
version. Otherwise you could try to build dri by yourself you will find
instruction for that on dri.freedesktop.org in the building section.

best,
Jerome Glisse

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